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Nachi Primeval Forest

Nekosuki · CC BY-SA 4.0

97% trees around it and 344 species recorded.

90Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km97%
  • wild within 10 km97%
  • species recorded344
  • Altitude419 m

The forest around

97% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 96%Grassland 2%Bare ground 0%Built-up 2%Trees 97%Grassland 2%Built-up 2%Trees 96%Grassland 2%Water 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 1%Trees 77%Grassland 2%Water 16%Bare ground 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 3%97%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km96%
  • 1–3 km97%
  • 3–6 km96%
  • 6–10 km77%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees97%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up2%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

344 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Eared Lady Fern
Eared Lady FernAthyrium otophorum35 recordsRaffi Kojian · CC BY-SA 3.0
Leptochilus ellipticus
Leptochilus ellipticusLeptochilus ellipticus33 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Keisotyo assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Microlepia marginata
Microlepia marginataMicrolepia marginata33 recordsharum.koh from Kobe city, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0
Rainforest spleenwort
Rainforest spleenwortAsplenium normale30 recordsKeisotyo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Osmolindsaea odorata
Osmolindsaea odorataOsmolindsaea odorata29 recordsKeisotyo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Loxogramme salicifolia
Loxogramme salicifoliaLoxogramme salicifolia26 recordsKeisotyo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pyrrosia lingua
Pyrrosia linguaPyrrosia lingua20 recordsChhe ( talk ) · Public domain
Pteris wallichiana
Pteris wallichianaPteris wallichiana20 recordsKeisotyo · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dryopteris erythrosora
Dryopteris erythrosoraDryopteris erythrosora19 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ctenitis subglandulosa
Ctenitis subglandulosaCtenitis subglandulosa18 recordsゆうき315 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Asymmetric spleenwortAsplenium wrightii44 records
Hymenophyllum badiumHymenophyllum badium39 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

90out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 97%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 97%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 344Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 419 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in November.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan11°6°70 mm
  2. Feb12°6°92 mm
  3. Mar15°9°125 mm
  4. Apr18°13°154 mm
  5. May22°18°169 mm
  6. Jun24°21°241 mm
  7. Jul28°25°235 mm
  8. Aug29°26°198 mm
  9. Sep27°24°259 mm
  10. Oct23°19°226 mm
  11. Nov18°14°113 mm
  12. Dec13°8°84 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Nachi Primeval Forest.

Forest in Japan

Nachi Primeval Forest is a forest in Japan, 419 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 97% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 97% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

344 species have been recorded around it: 313 plants, 1 fungi, 30 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Eared Lady Fern, Leptochilus ellipticus and Microlepia marginata.

The best time to walk is in November.

Kumano Kodo World heritage Nachi-no-taki 熊野古道 那智大滝66
Nekosuki · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Hisetsunotaki Camping Groundcampsite · 9.6 km · 5 within 10 km
  • ビジネスホテル 勝浦place to stay · 5.4 km · 43 within 10 km
  • Katsuuranearest town · 6.6 km in a straight line
  • Nanki Shirahama Airport (SHM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 49 km in a straight lineCar hire at KIX airport (Osaka)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Nachi Primeval Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1marked trails within 5 km熊野古道 中辺路 大雲取越
  • 3named and notable trees within 6 kmタブノキ, 那智の樟, 秀衡桜
  • 34picnic sites within 4 km
  • 6shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 4viewpoints within 5 km那智滝 and 3 more
  • 14car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmHisetsunotaki Camping Ground, 飛雪の滝キャンプ場, 小口自然の家 and 2 more
  • 43places to stay within 10 kmビジネスホテル 勝浦, 勝浦観光ホテル, サンライズ勝浦 and 40 more
  • 5restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Nachi Primeval Forest.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas16 mountains within 25 km
Mount Nachi1.3 kmMount Myōhō2.0 kmShiromi-yama7.8 kmMount Chihogamine253 m · 9.6 kmNenotomari-yama14 kmMount Ōtō1,122 m · 18 kmŌmori-yama21 kmNodake-bōshi23 km
Islandyasthe island
Honshu230,426 km²
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Nachi-Katsuura ObservatoryBortle 3 · 7.9 km
Cascadyas5 waterfalls within 15 km
Nachi Falls133 m · 0.6 kmKuwanoki Falls6.4 kmHisetsu Falls9.7 kmHanajiro Falls12 kmTakinohai14 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Daimonzaka8562
日: Jnn · CC BY 2.1 jp
Kumano Kodo World heritage Nachi-no-taki 熊野古道 那智大滝02
Nekosuki · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Nachi Primeval Forest

Japan

  • 90Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 344Species

Kasugayama Primeval Forest

Japan · 112 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 81%Trees
  • 65%Wild
  • 910Species

See the guide

Aokigahara

Japan · 321 km

  • 90Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 371Species

See the guide

Miho no Matsubara

Japan · 282 km

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 4%Trees
  • 83%Wild
  • 162Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q11642740) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,554 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
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